Rail & Road

Ensuring Long-Term Stability Through Ground Improvement

Your Challenges

Guaranteeing the long-lasting performance of this infrastructure is vital, so it’s important to ensure that the soils that they will be resting on are stabilized and appropriately reinforced to avoid costly and damaging soil settlements over time. Ground improvement is a practical, economical, and efficient approach to the unique demands that both railways and roadway projects face when encountering poor soil. Our ground improvement approaches help to reinforce the soils in place without having to create a lot of excess soil, which is a positive from both a project budget perspective and from an environmental point of view, helping to protect area wildlife and wetlands from being disturbed.

Transportation networks, such as roads and railways, are critical infrastructures and are heavily relied upon. Consequently, both must perform as expected over time, regardless of the day-to-day demands placed on them. However, one of the biggest challenges for most transportation infrastructures, especially with associated slopes, embankments, and retaining walls, is that they are often built-in areas consisting of highly compressible and weak soils with low bearing capacities, stability, and extreme settlement characteristics.

Our ground improvement systems are designed to help ensure that your infrastructure project is a success, no matter what soil-related challenges it faces. By choosing Menard Canada as your trusted partner for ground improvement, you are ensuring the success of your project through the following:

  • Regulation of structural settlements
  • Reduction of soil liquefaction
  • Mitigation of significant seismic incidences
  • Increasing the soils bearing capacity
  • Increase global short- and long-term stability

Types of Infrastructure

Bridges

Viaducts
Flyovers and overpasses
Bridge approach
Footbridges
Bridge abutments
Box culvert underpasses

Railways

Railways embankments
Tramways
Railways stations

Roads and Highways

Roads and highways embankments
Slope stabilization

Our Solutions

When your project is facing costly delays, geotechnical risks, and budget overruns due to challenging site soils, we’re here to help guide you to the best ground improvement solution for your project. As experts in the geotechnical field for well over 50-years, you can be assured that we can help you efficiently and effectively improve the characteristics of almost any soil type found across Canada, including artificial fills, clay, sands, and even organic soils.

Some of the systems that we commonly use for infrastructure projects, such as roadways, highways, and railways, are:

From a suburban road to a key high-speed train line, Menard Canada masters the full range of ground improvement solutions to deliver your project on time and on budget. Our project feasibility studies are always complimentary and pressure-free.

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Sustainable and innovative foundations, for all infrastructure.

Menard Canada delivers a wide range of ground improvement techniques to provide our clients with the most economically sound solutions.

Buildings

Ports & Airports

Process & Energy

Mining

Contact Us

Whether you are preparing a new project or need technical advice, our team is here to help. Contact us to learn more about our expertise and our solutions.

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